Summary
When it comes to drawing with the Pen or Pencil tool, close is plenty good enough. That's because InDesign lets you modify paths in many ways — by moving, adding, and deleting anchor points; by switching smooth points to corner points and vice versa; and by dragging direction lines. You also have the option to extend either or both ends of an open path and to close open paths.If a path requires more drastic surgery, you can use the Scissors tool, which lets you split any kind of path into two pieces.Because InDesign is primarily a page-layout program, it doesn't contain the breadth of illustration-specific features that you would find in a dedicated vector-based drawing program. Although you may decide that you need a dedicated illustration program to handle your industrial-strength drawing tasks, InDesign does have several features for creating complex shapes.For example, the Compound Path command lets you combine several paths into a single object. If you want to add a graphic flourish to the corners of a path, the Corner Effects command lets you apply any of several built-in corner styles and specify the size of the corner effect.